Meg Whitman hires veteran campaign staffers
By Josh Richman
Thursday, June 4th, 2009 at 12:17 pm in 2010 governor's race, Meg Whitman.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has added two GOP veterans to her campaign, one of whom used to work for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger – of whom Whitman hasn’t been so complimentary.
Richard Costigan, Schwarzenegger’s former Deputy Chief of Staff and Legislative Affairs Secretary, will be Whitman’s deputy campaign manager for policy, leading the campaign’s development team. Costigan, of Granite Bay, also is a former GOP Legislative staffer former California Chamber of Commerce vice president and most recently has been senior director of state and government affairs for the law firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. I guess Whitman, who opposed Schwarzenegger’s May 19 special-election ballot measures and says the governor hasn’t gone far enough in cutting state workers’ jobs, isn’t holding that against Costigan.
And Tucker Bounds, who served as deputy communications director and national spokesman for McCain-Palin 2008, will be Whitman’s deputy campaign manager for communications. He also has served as press secretary for the western region for the Republican National Committee, and for former U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore.
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June 5th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Whew! Close call.
At least it wasn’t Ken Khachigian, where GOP campaigns go to die in California.